Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths is Glenn Greenwald's obit. As usual it's a long diatribe but I found it interesting. it starts with an article length screed about the hagiography of Reagan's funeral and then relates that to what happened with Hitchens (with a few mentions of Tim Russert for good measure). As many have pointed out, Hitchens never held back in his obituaries. There are a lot of Hitchens' views I didn't agree with and I wasn't that interested in his book reviews in The Atlantic, but I enjoyed him on TV and appreciated his wit (though I thought it was often a little too filtered through scotch).
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